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Medical Pharmacy

Methadone Maintenance

A Physician’s Guide to Treatment

edited by Peter Selby & Meldon Kahan

Publisher
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Initial publish date
Mar 2008
Category
Pharmacy, Education & Training, Pharmacology
  • Spiral bound

    ISBN
    9780888687241
    Publish Date
    Mar 2008
    List Price
    $59.95
  • Spiral bound

    ISBN
    9781770528925
    Publish Date
    Jan 2011
    List Price
    $69.95

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This revised edition of Methadone Maintenance: A Physician's Guide to Treatment is substantially updated and is consistent with the 2001 College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario Methadone Maintenance Guidelines. It provides physicians with comprehensive and practical guidance pertaining to all areas of methadone prescribing and dispensing.

About the authors

Peter Selby, MBBS, CCFP, is the Clinical Director of Addictions Program and Head of the Nicotine Dependence Clinic at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health as well as Assistant Professor in the Departments of Family and Community Medicine, Public Health Sciences and Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He practices addiction medicine with a special focus on addiction during pregnancy. Some of his areas of research include smoking cessation in pregnancy: Zyban in the retreatment of relapsed smokers especially the use of pharmacotherapy and the treatment of heroin addiction in pregnancy, and web-based interventions: The Stop Smoking Centre among others.

Peter Selby's profile page

Meldon Kahan, MD, CCFP, FCFP, FRCPC, is medical director of the substance use service at Women's College Hospital in Toronto. In addition, he is an associate professor and funded researcher in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto.

Meldon Kahan's profile page